When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom My rating: 3 of 5 stars “When Nietzsche Wept” is the imagined meeting of Dr. Breuer and Nietzsche. There’s no actual evidence that the two met, but Irvin Yalom uses his understanding of the two men to create a scenario for what would’ve happened had Nietzsche sought out Dr. Breuer’s talking treatments. Dr. Josef Breuer was one of the founding fathers of psychology. He is a real life contemporary and mentor to Sigmund Freud. […]